Bell Labs comes to Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Bell Labs has opened its research and development center, Bell Labs

India, here in Hyderabad. The new facility, which will complement the activities

of the existing Bell Labs R&D facility in Bangalore, will engage in research

on emerging technologies such as 3G wireless and UMTS (Universal Mobile

Telecommunications Systems). It will play a vital role in the development of

Lucent products distributed globally.

Inaugurating the facility here, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu

Naidu, said, "We want to make Hyderabad a major knowledge hub of India and

opening up of facilities like this would go a long way in achieving our prime

goal. Bell Labs could prove to be very useful in promoting knowledge here and

eventually it could become a center of excellence for all the convergence

technologies."

With more than 30,000 employees in 30 countries, Bell Labs is one of the

largest R&D organizations dedicated to communications. It has generated more

than 28,000 patents since its inception in 1925 and has played a key role in

perfecting communications technologies, including transistors, digital

networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber optic communications systems.

The Hyderabad facility has 50 software professionals working on the latest

communication technologies. Bell Labs in India is engaged in emerging

technologies such as broadband and mobile Internet. Lucent has its offices in

New Delhi and Bangalore, and project offices at Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kerala,

Chandigarh and Jaipur.